Cuban Meatballs Bento. To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. We can have cuban meatballs bento using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cuban Meatballs Bento:
- Prepare of ground beef.
- Take of red onion diced.
- Make ready of green pepper diced.
- Take of garlic cloves finely chopped.
- Take of cumin.
- Prepare of lime juiced.
- Prepare of egg.
- Prepare of panko.
- Make ready of tomato sauce.
- Get of white wine.
- Get of parsley chopped.
- Take of Olive oil for cooking.
- Make ready of Salt & Pepper.
Steps to make Cuban Meatballs Bento:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees..
- In a bowl mix ground beef, diced onion (reserve a tablespoon of chopped onion), all the diced green pepper, half of the chopped garlic, cumin, half of the lime juice, egg, salt & pepper to taste, and the panko. Mix everything really well. Shape meatballs to desired size. For a Bento try to keep them relatively small..
- Place meatballs in an oiled baking tray and bake for 25 minutes. We are just trying to brown the outside. If you want to do it the really authentic Cuban way, fry the meatballs instead of baking them..
- In a saucepan add some olive oil and sautée remaining onions and garlic for about a minute. Immediately add tomato sauce and salt & pepper to taste. Add the remaining lime juice and white wine. Simmer for 10 minutes..
- Add meatballs to sauce and let simmer in medium heat for 15 minutes..
- Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving. Note: Let cool to room temperature before putting in Bento box..
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